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RHF wrote:
For One and All,

My 'other' Crazy Idea was to require each 50 KW
Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Station to have a 5 KW
Shortwave Simulcast.

Every 50 KW Clear Channel In The USA With A Difference
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...a/message/9520

Plus require all 50 KW Clear Channel AM/MW Radio Stations
to carry locally produced 'original' Programming from
5 AM to 10 AM in the Mornings and 7 AM to 12 Midnight
in the Evenings.

A 50 KW Clear Channel Radio Station from Boston should be
"The Voice of New England" and not a Dr. Laura repeat.

Are you nuts?

The clear channel stations (Clear Channel, with caps, is a company) are
local stations in all but hours of darkness. In other words, they simply use
the 50 kw to get a solid signal over their metro area and a bit of
surrounding territory, but they are not daytime monsters.

At night, nearly nobody listens to AM radio. Maybe 2% of the population. So
the times when a clear gets some additional coverage, there is nobody
listening. It is hard to even give away 7 to midnight ad time.

Radio is a local medium. There is no gain from having audience outside the
metro at all. Each station sells its local broadcasts to local advertisers
or national ones buying on a market by market basis. 60% of all 12+ US
population is in the top 50 metro areas, so there is not much interest in
anything else.

And what frequencies would you put the SW broadcasts on? Although there are
a lot fewer SW station on the longer wavebands, there is still a lot of
interference... and 5 kw is not much, unless you propose using the tropical
band.